Sentences with phrase «when young pastor»

When young pastor Matt Brown announced he was supporting a ministry for women in the sex industry led by an x-stripper, he was expecting applause.

Not exact matches

One young adult pastor from Seattle area told me of a friend's lament that, when it comes to video games, «14 - year - olds are kicking our butt when we play online.»

When I was a young teenage Christian, I one day expressed some doctrinal doubts to my pastor, who in no uncertain terms informed me that doubt was of Satan and that there was never any reason to question God's Word.

Brittni has left the industry behind and is now married to a pastor at her church, but the contracts she signed when she was younger give porn companies the legal right to profit from her images and videos indefinitely.

ALL ABOUT SAVING SOULS Inner - city ministry, as it was called, was all the rage when I was a young Lutheran pastor.

Years ago when I was planting a church, I met another young, energetic pastor who was planting another one in the same town.

Evangelical leaders constantly warn that young people are deserting churches; pastors struggle to address changing views on homosexuality; and others wonder how evangelicals can remain relevant when a growing number of Americans refuse to identify with any religion.

He was a young Scottish pastor from the 19th Century who died when he was only 30 years old.

When I use the word «Christian» in the article, I'm not talking about the young woman's theology, which is Bible - based and may be closer to the American evangelical than, say, the liberal Episcopalian pastor down the street!

That's the question Thabiti Anyabwile, an African American pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church, asks when handwringing commences about young people leaving US churches.

I remember the young woman in Nashville who pulled me aside, tears brimming in her blue eyes, to tell me about how her mother worried about her, argued with her, and was deeply disappointed in her... for going to seminary and becoming a pastor (when «the Bible clearly teaches» women can not serve in such a way).

But when a new young pastor was hired, he wanted a cooler band to get more young people, and the first thing to go were the older women.

When the Church at Brook Hills hired David Platt as senior pastor this summer, he became one of the youngest megachurch pastors in the country.

When 26 - year - old David Platt became senior pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in 2006, he was regarded as one of the youngest megachurch pastors in America.

I remember when I was very young one of my friends was telling us about what his pastor was preaching.

In fact, when I was in junior high, I remember being at a Christian youth conference where the speaker did an altar call of sorts for «young men called to be pastors» and «young women called to be pastors» wives.»

When I was young, I use to practice the type of prayer Boyd describes in this book, but when I went off to Bible college and then became a pastor, I was instructed in the «real» way of praying, and my «childish» way of praying dWhen I was young, I use to practice the type of prayer Boyd describes in this book, but when I went off to Bible college and then became a pastor, I was instructed in the «real» way of praying, and my «childish» way of praying dwhen I went off to Bible college and then became a pastor, I was instructed in the «real» way of praying, and my «childish» way of praying died.

If you have any influence there at Grapevine, please Brett, for Pastor Young's sake, keep an eye on him, challenge him when he needs it, and make sure someone is regularly stepping outside of the groupthink of the leadership team to act as a circuit breaker if things get a bit too weird.

When I was a pastor I was called to PAOC headquarters to be reprimanded for bringing young people to the cinema to see the Three Amigos!

When many parents, pastors, and church leaders think of young people, «leadership» is probably not the first word.

Then we had another pastor who had an affair with a woman he was consoling, (they later married) a youth leader with a porn addiction, a worship leader that had a relationship with a young girl in youth group, years before, when he was a youth leader.

He said (I'm paraphrasing), «I asked my wife recently if she remembers pastors being regarded as successful or not - successful when she was younger, and she confirmed my sense that they never were.

You see, I was the target of a very, very harsh, mean - spirited attack by my pastor [best friend] and the young deacons when I was an elder in a previous church, 6 weeks before going to Bible college to become a pastor.

When Ed Chambers first arrived on that scene, Alinsky worried that the young seminarian would try to talk theology to the pastors, «which of course they would not understand.»

It's not just young Baptist pastors who are worried about mixing religion and politics when it comes to Ben Carson's campaign for president.

Harry Ironside tells the story of a time when he was first beginning to pastor as a young man, and he went home to California to visit his family and found a man of God living nearby who was from Northern Ireland.

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

For the young pastors in the group, this smacked of self - promotion, and Malphurs seemed to sense this, because when he was done, he said, «Well, enough of selling my own books.»

When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at that tWhen I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at that twhen she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at that time.

The twins made headlines in 2017 when they defended the controversial Nigerian - born pastor after he was accused of sexually abusing female churchgoers some as young as 14.

Headline: Cops Struggle to Juggle Careers and Fatherhood in Faith - Based Family Flick When Pastor Alex Kendrick read a report back in 2003 alleging that movies had become more of an influence on impressionable young minds than the church, he decided to do something about it.

A talented young singer - songwriter's Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her pastor father to pursue pop music stardom.

When I went to the mission field I kept a very few and donated the rest to a young pastor's wife.